Rokudaki (3.5e Equipment)

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Rokudaki:Rokudaki is a +2 ghost touch greatclub with sixteen
knurls (or power points, as the creator called them)
flattened and carved on it, each highlighted with red and
purple paint. It has passed from the hands of one tribal
nomad shaman to the next as a tool to prevent harm by
the jealous dead. As the nomads went from drier lands
to more fertile ones, ghosts and other ethereal creatures
have become less and less common, and few in the
tribe even remember Rokudaki’s real use.

The club was created by a tribal elder who was
concerned about certain attacks taking place at night
against his people. Survivors spoke of a weight on their
chest that roused them from sleep, often accompanied
by paralysis or a deep chill. They would look about in
horror...and see a recently deceased relative staring
blankly down at them. These all-but-insubstantial
ghosts managed to drain the life force from several
people over the course of a few days.

The elder journeyed long to find the proper tree
from which to take a weapon. At last he found one
with branches as convoluted as the pain the attacks had
caused among the tribe, and Rokudaki was cut from its
wood in short order. A few smaller weapons were also
made, a club and a short spear (but those have since
disappeared). The elder returned from the trip tired but
well armed, and gave the weapons to those members
of the tribe who had been attacked. These few formed
a quiet night patrol that, with guidance, thinned out the
root of the attacks in a few weeks, sending the angry
spirits back to the underworld.

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